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Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
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Velma Wallis
In this traditional Alaskan legend, two old women abandoned by their migrating tribe refuse to die in the wilderness. They irritate each other, snap and snarl as they struggle for survival, in this testament to the resilience of older women
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Two Old Women
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Wallis recounts an Indian legend passed down thougth generations of Alaskan Athabascan women. Two women, aged 80 and 70, are abandoned by their tribe during a famine and must find a way to survive the winter.
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Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun
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The author of the bestselling "Two Old Women" retells another classic Alaskan Indian legend about two adventurers who break the taboos of their community and set out on dangerous quests for freedom and knowledge. Line art throughout.
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Bird Girl & Man Who Follow
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From the author of the bestselling Two Old Women comes the story of two Native Americans who break the strict taboos of their communal culture in their quests for freedom and adventure in the unknown. For a headstrong young woman, it means defying her family's expectations to brave life on her own. For a curious young man, it means forsaking the ...
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Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River
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Velma Wallis, James L Grant (Illustrator)
RAISING OURSELVES is a gritty, sobering, yet irresistible memoir filled with laughter even as generations of Gwich'in grief seeps from past to present. But hope pushes back hopelessness, and a new strength and wisdom emerge from the lives of the native people of the Yukon River in Alaska.
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Raising Ourselves
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Opening a window to a world rarely seen, Velma Wallis tells her family's troubled history with honesty, wisdom, wit, and overriding hope. Wallis also wrote Two Old Women, the million-seller translated into seventeen languages.
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Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska
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From the author of TWO OLD WOMEN, a novel based on an Alaskan legend. A young woman, living in a harsh natural environment, defies her family's wish for her to become a traditional wife and mother, and instead chooses to brave life as a hunter. She meets a restless young dreamer and together they embark upon a fantastic journey.
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Zwei Alte Frauen
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Velma Wallis
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Zwei Alte Frauen / Das Vogelmädchen
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Velma; Both Wallis, Heike; Grant, Jim
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Tras El Sol - Bolsillo -
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Velma Wallis
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